Tiny Pollen by rzfmzn
You are in control of a tiny pollen that must gather other pollen scattered around the scene and take them to the other flower. WASD to move, instructions in the stage selection screen.
Developed using Unity. Art made using my iPad (procreate and some other apps). Music made using iPad´s garageBand. Placing links for standalone versions soon (win, mac, linux).
http://www.shoyugames.com.br/Jogos/LD38/Windows.rar
http://www.shoyugames.com.br/Jogos/LD38/Linux.rar
http://www.shoyugames.com.br/Jogos/LD38/Mac.rar
http://www.shoyugames.com.br/Jogos/LD38/ (web)
http://www.shoyugames.com.br/Jogos/LD38/LD38.rar (Project)
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/tiny-pollen |
Ratings
| Given | 2🗳️ | 1🗨️ |
This is an interesting title largely for the controls. You're using zero-gravity spaceship physics to control pollen. Wouldn't have been my first choice, but it works well enough. One tweak you could do to really improve these kinds of controls is to control with the mouse rather than the keyboard. Left click to move the pollen's velocity towards the cursor, right click to move it away. In Unity I think you'd want to use Vector3.MoveTowards.
In terms of graphics, my main complaint has to be the fonts. pure red doesn't look very good in most contexts and this is no exception. I would have liked to see the font you used on the title be used throughout the game, maybe in a dark green with a light-green outline.
Other than the font, the game looks quite nice. I love the blur on the backgrounds and the wind effects.
I got through the first 4 levels without too much problem. The first three were a bit samey, but also pretty quick. On the fifth level though, it seemed like the objective increased dramatically, and I couldn't find enough pollen to complete even half of it. I tried waiting around for the respawn, but at some point the game just decided to kill the stage and make me restart it. I don't know what happened. Maybe I ran out of some hidden or off-screen timer? Since I couldn't return to the main menu I had to stop playing there.
The font I used to the tittle is my handwritting :P I use Procreate to study Calligraphy :) although, now that you mentioned, seems a good idea to write all with it :)
The graphics are really, really nice, the mood is fantastic, a pit it got spoiled a little bit with out of this world UI elements like the timer or the progress bar.
5th level needs a bit balancing, but still it added a twist to the game.
Thank you!